ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduction:
This thesis summarises the findings of a medical audit on the management of Cryptococcal Meningitis (CM). The study population of HIV positive adults (N = twenty five) were admitted during ...

ENGLISH SUMMARY: Background: Sub Saharan Africa is home to approximately two thirds of the world’s population of HIV positive individuals. In view of the socioeconomic challenges of the region governments have provided ...

Background: - Living wills have long been associated with end-of- life care. This study explored the promotion and use of living wills amongst general practitioners and frail care nursing coordinators directly involved in ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Background: The World Health Organisation has advocated for comprehensive primary care teams, which include family physicians. However, despite (or because of) severe doctor shortages in Africa, there is ...

This is the first in a series of articles on primary care research in the African context.
The aim of the series is to help build capacity for primary care research amongst the
emerging departments of family medicine and ...

Introduction: The Sixth PRIMAFAMED (Primary Health Care/Family Medicine Education Network) workshop
on ‘Capacity Building and Priorities in Primary Care Research’ was held in Pretoria, South Africa (SA), from 22 to 24 ...

This article is part of the series on African primary care research and focuses on participatory
action research. The article gives an overview of the emancipatory-critical research paradigm,
the key characteristics and ...

This article is part of a series on Primary Care Research in the African context and focuses on
programme evaluation. Different types of programme evaluation are outlined: developmental,
process, outcome and impact. Eight ...

The aim of this article is to provide practical guidance on conducting surveys and the use
of questionnaires for postgraduate students at a Masters level who are undertaking primary
care research. The article is intended ...

This article is part of a series on African primary care research and gives practical guidance
on qualitative data analysis and the presentation of qualitative findings. After an overview
of qualitative methods and ...

This article is part of a series on African Primary Care Research and focuses on the topic
of qualitative interviewing in primary care. In particular it looks at issues of study design,
sample size, sampling and interviewing ...

Improving the quality of clinical care and translating evidence into clinical practice is
commonly a focus of primary care research. This article is part of a series on primary care
research and outlines an approach to ...

This article is part of a series on Primary Care Research Methods. The article describes types of
continuous and categorical data, how to capture data in a spreadsheet, how to use descriptive
and inferential statistics ...

This is the second article in the series on African primary care research. The article focuses
on how to search for relevant evidence in the published literature that can be used in the
development of a research proposal. ...

Presenting a research report is an important way of demonstrating one’s ability to conduct
research and is a requirement of most research-based degrees. Although known by various
names across academic institutions, the ...

Background: The emergency care of patients in South Africa has improved with the establishment of Emergency and Family Medicine as specialities, the introduction of the Cape Triage Scoring (CTS), and the upgrading of ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION
Religion is important in Africa and many churches are involved in HIV ministry. Prevention programmes, however, are less frequent in the church setting and there is little evaluation of them. ...

Alcohol misuse may come to be recognized as one of the most significant public health concerns facing South
Africa over the next few years. This is a direct result of alcohol's impact on the health services, the economy, ...

Integrative medicine (IM) is defined as a healing-oriented
medicine that takes account of the whole
person (body, mind and spirit) including all aspects of
lifestyle. It emphasises the therapeutic relationship
and makes ...

Background: Measurement of blood pressure (BP) is done poorly because of both human
and machine errors.
Aim: To assess the difference between BP recorded in a pragmatic way and that recorded using
standard guidelines; ...